Game Theory and Strategic Behavior Suppose that GE is trying to prevent Maytag from entering the market for high efficiency clothes dryers. Even though high efficiency dryers are more costly to produce, they are also more profitable as they command sufficiently higher prices from consumers. The following payoffs table shows the annual profits for GE […]

As described and depicted in Sci-fi futuristic films like I, Robot, Minority Report and Star Wars, the Automated Highway System (AHS) features an automatically controlled transportation system that is meticulously interlaced with the highway system.  The principal idea of AHS is to remove the driving operation from human control and assign it to the vehicle, […]

In this assignment, you will continue your analysis of sustainability issues at a hypothetical organization—Top Shelf Shoes. This assignment will allow you the opportunity to build knowledge and practice of the sustainable elements of corporate operations.Click here to download and review the Top Shelf scenario.Using the module readings, the Argosy University online library resources, and […]

Ethical Dilemma/Memo There are three candidates waiting for a kidney transplant:  John, Jr., a 17-year-old boy with a history of medical conditions; John, Jr. is the son of a famous, now retired athlete who has offered to donate five million dollars to the hospital if his son receives the kidney. Mary, a 40-year-old woman with […]

A SAMPLE POSITION PAPER Globalization: A Transition to What? Barber, Benjamin R. Introduction to Jihad vs. McWorld (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) Kobrin, Stephen J. “Back to the Future: Neomedievalism and the Postmodern Digital World Economy,” Globalization and Governance (London: Routledge, 1999. After the bloody clashes between anti-globalization protesters and the police in Genoa, globalization […]

Two types of ratio comparisons can be made: cross-sectional and time-series. 2-4 Cross-sectional & time series analysis Cross-sectional analysis involves the comparison of different firms’ financial ratios at the same point in time. Called benchmarking, has become very popular. Comparison to industry averages (These figures can be found in the Almanac of Business and Industrial […]

Finally, the “Zoo” data set Is a trivial one with 7 classes, which are animal groups, with a total of 101 instances. Each animal instance contains 18 attributes, those of which include the animal’s name or race, 2 numeric for its legs and its type, and 15 Boolean-valued attributes; those that involve simple yes or […]

1 Understand why communication is the working setting 1. 1 Identify the different reasons people communicate                                                                                   […]

The Looking Glass Self states that we imagine how we appear to others and how we imagine others reaction to our imagined appearance and that we evaluate ourselves according to how we imagine others have judged us. Every day of my life that I leave the house to go to school or to work or […]

  This discussion focuses on mapping cloud security controls to existing frameworks or regulations. Download the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix spreadsheet. (A quick Internet search should give you the address of the most current version for download.) Under the “Scope Applicability” heading, select a category that is applicable to the organization for […]